Global climate change will have inevitable consequences and implications for the humanitarian community. Although specific outcomes are unclear, it is certain that the world will experience significant transformations in the next 20 years, and that currently vulnerable populations will be among those most affected. Researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute, as the authors of this paper, ... read moredescribe the current state of climate information, and the expected human and physical consequences for which humanitarian organizations must be prepared to address in the next two decades.read less